Cenpm - centromere protein M

This gene encodes a protein that is present in the nucleus of actively growing cells but is excluded from the nucleus during cell division or during growth arrest as a result of contact inhibition. In human, this protein is a component of the CENP-A nucleosome-associated complex that regulates kinetochore protein assembly, mitotic cell-cycle progression, and chromosome segregation. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]